Cognizant Manager Salaries in Pune (Updated 2025)

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... Cons - Technical person pulled into irrelevant KPI e.g. getting more business - Salary is not at par with market standards. - Sometimes people get stuck in one project and switching to another one is difficult. - Promotion to the next level is a very difficult and painful process and not very transparent.

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...kill development and learning. Process oriented and people are accommodative. Salary is provide as per the market. Hike is better than other IT service organizations.

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Most of the project are in the 2nd shift covering US and UK time zones. Currently the workhour is flexible otherwise it is 10 hours officially.

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Salary and perks

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0 job security. Every quarter there is a list and people are laid off. Managers threaten their team if they dont do work within given time they will be laid off - like literally. Worst company on this planet. For NCR location official working hrs are 9 hrs but manager says you will have to enter 10 hrs only in time sheet and be available as per 10 hrs shift. Also, off records managers says you will have to stretch and work for 24 hrs and weekends otherwise you might be laid off. Never Ever join this pathetic company even if they offer you 100 crores ctc. I have seen 15 years old loyal employees and star performers being just laid off like that. And yeah most importantly - South Indian people driven company, especially Tamilians. They just rule this company, so much regionalism, for north indian people very hard for them to survive

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US H1-B visa processing

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Everything else. No work life balance, underpaid salary, unempathetic management, unrealistic goals, bad upskilling platform, non-reachable HR, politics in performance reviews, no career growth, toxic culture in projects.

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Visibility, Growth, Learning scope are very good here. having said all this, again its down to the project you are working in and will vary case to case

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compensation to the long timers is not good. Appraisal cycle is from Jan-Dec, but revision is will happen only by the next year October., that too with a very nominal % hikes even for the best appraisal ratings.